Enchanted, with my mom, on Christmas Eve. . . . And OMG! I think the last movie I saw with my dad was Turner and Hooch. How embarrassing. He chose it because he thought it would be a perfect family movie. Gack.

Citizen Ruth. This was a long time ago (obviously), but I remember clear as day that the comically graphic sex scene at the beginning of the film left my old-fashioned parents visibly shocked and nearly rendered me spontaneosly blind, deaf and dumb as a result of it Oy vey!

"Nim's Island", and before that, "Enchanted". My mother hadn't seen a movie since my brother took her to see "The Queen", and my father hadn't seen one for a few years more. So I thought, well I'll take them out to see a movie, but it's kind of hard when there can't be any sex, swearing, or violence.

There's things in movies I don't even think about, but hooo booy, watching those formerly innocent movies with them....

With both parents? I think it's Akira Kurosawa's Dodes Ka-Den, when it played at the Harvard Film Archive almost exactly three years ago. They were living outside Boston for a year, and when my brother and I visited them, I convinced us all to check out this relatively rare title (now practically the only Kurosawa film not on DVD in this country). It's an odd film, but we liked it.

My mom became wary of going to the movies ever since getting motion-sick thanks to the camerawork of Once. Now that she's back living in the Bay Area I'm going to try to ease her back in to the cinema experience starting with a classic film or two guaranteed to have steady cinematography.

par --i'm sorry! condolences. I still have both of mine and though we're not exactly "close" i know that losing them eventually will hurt. and they are getting up there in years. (i was the baby of the family so they're older than my friends parents)

The phone kept ringing with calls for him so we had to keep pausing and by the end of the movie, I just had to tell him "you're the first person I know who took two and a half hours to watch an 80 minute movie." :P

NathanielHaha, maybe it was. But everbody more or less liked it, so it worked.

I was more worried when I sat down with my Christian, profanity-hating, mostly conservative mom to watch Boogie Nights. But to my relief, she actually liked it (and laughed at all the right places too =).

Revenge of the Sith three years ago. Since the 1997 Special Edition, it was our little tradition that I went to each successive Star Wars movie with my Mom (quality be damned! ;) ), and for the last episode Dad, who hates sci-fi, unexpectedly expressed the will to join us. We've all quite liked it, and had an ice-cream together after the film, and it was an awesome afternoon. :)

These days, convincing them to go see a film after I've already seen and liked it, is as close as it gets to going together. *sigh*

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 with both parents. Enchanted with Mom and Grandma (and aunt and cousins, etc.) All of my friends had loved Enchanted (and all had female companions to accompany them), but I felt so weird going to see it by myself-- so I had to gather a female family member entourage. It was worth it.

With Mom, I guess Cars? With Dad - Syriana? I'm unsure on both counts.

However, give this huge props to my mom - this year, she went and saw all five Best Picture nominees on the same day with my brother in a theater in Virginia. 12-hour commitment. Work it, Nancy! (For the record, she'd have voted for Juno, she liked MC and Atonement, she was terrified of Anton Chigurh, and she was worried Daniel Day-Lewis' head was going to explode in TWBB.)

As for myself, the last joint outing with both parents was Enchanted, which they both enjoyed. The last with my mam was Sherrybaby, I think. No, actually it was Lars & The Real Girl. Bleurgh. Me and my dad saw 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days together a few months ago.

We have family traditions too. Like, every year we went to see the LOTR films together (happiest movie experiences of my life) and we still all make the trek out to see the new Harry Potter films, even though both my sister and I have grown out of them. It's still nice to make an occasion out of it, though, even if it's just to slag Daniel Radcliffe's acting all the way home together.

"Sweeney Todd" was the last one we all saw in theatres. My mom hated it because of all the singing and she said the blood was too fake. (What can you do? Not all parents are fans of musicals, though she did dig "Grease" and "Hairspray".) Anyway, my dad loved it. He's not much of an Oscar buzzer, but he said right after the movie ended that he wanted it to get a Best Picture nod and a Best Director nod for Burton.

The last one we saw together at home was probably "Juno", which we all loved. I must have seen it 10 times by now, but it's still funny. XD

"Sweeney Todd" was the last one we all saw in theatres. My mom hated it because of all the singing and she said the blood was too fake. (What can you do? Not all parents are fans of musicals, though she did dig "Grease" and "Hairspray".) Anyway, my dad loved it. He's not much of an Oscar buzzer, but he said right after the movie ended that he wanted it to get a Best Picture nod and a Best Director nod for Burton.

The last one we saw together at home was probably "Juno", which we all loved. I must have seen it 10 times by now, but it's still funny. XD

With just my parents: Pride and Prejudice, in 2005. With my whole family: Casino Royale, in 2006. With just my mom: Becoming Jane, right before I left to come to England for the year. With just my dad? Probably The Commitments, way back in the day.

I watched 1408 with my mum on DVD for Mother's Day (hey, she wanted to see it), but I thought we were talking about going to the movies. Although maybe I shouldn't count that because she fell asleep after, like, 15 minute and only woke up once the movie turned to shite about 20 minutes out from the ending.